Indian Wushu Team bags six medals in BRICS Games

19 June, Guangzhou

India won six medals in the Wushu competition of the first ever BRICS Games, which concluded in Guangzhou, China Monday.

The medals haul comprised two each in gold, silver and bronze. M. Gyandas and Anjul Namdev won one gold each. The two silver medals came through Bidheswari Devi and Toshibala while L. Sanatgombhi Chanu and Sajan Lama settled for bronze in the Wushu competition. The first edition of the BRICS Games opened on Saturday.

It featured some 300 athletes from five countries- Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa with 10 events in 3 sports – men’s basketball, women’s volleyball and Wushu.

The launch of the first BRICS Games marked an important consensus reached at the 8th BRICS summit in Goa, India, last October. China will host the 9th BRICS summit in September this year in the coastal city of Xiamen in Fujian province.